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However, although the above cell surface antigens have been instrumental for the identification of tumour cell subpopulations with enriched tumour-initiating properties when transplanted into immune-incompetent recipient mice, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying intestinal cancer stemness and of the role played by cscs in progression. Previously, vermeulen. Showed that high Wnt activity earmarks cscs within suspension spheres derived from colon tumors. From this perspective, a number of additional issues need to be addressed: is nuclear β-catenin accumulation a functional marker for intestinal cscs in vivo? Are tumor cells with stem-like properties already present in early, benign lesions such as adenomas? Here, we took advantage of the Apc 1638N/ and Apc 1638N/ kras v12G mouse models for intestinal tumorigenesis to prospectively identify subpopulations of tumour stem-like cells and characterize them with regard to their multipotency, self-renewal, genome-wide expression profile, and Wnt/β-catenin signalling activity. Results Tumour-initiating Cells are Present in Apc1638N/krasv12G but are very rare in Apc1638N/ Intestinal Tumours The Apc 1638N/ mouse model develops an average of 45 benign upper gi tumours (adenomas) in the C57Bl/6J genetic background 10,. These lesions only rarely (and with late onset) develop into adenocarcinomas as also shown by the lack of spontaneous somatic mutations occurring at the Kras and Tp53 genes.

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Introduction Colon cancer still represents an ideal model to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie tumour onset and progression towards malignancy 1, the so-called adenoma-carcinoma sequence. Overall, loss-of-function mutations in the apc (adenomatous polyposis coli) tumour suppressor gene or oncogenic mutations in β-catenin ( ctnnb1 ) lead to the constitutive activation of Wnt/β-catenin signalling and represents the most common rate limiting (adenoma-forming) events among colon cancer patients. Adenoma growth and progression is often accompanied by alterations in kras or braf, followed by loss of the tp53 and smad4 tumour suppressors thought to underlie the malignant transformation into locally invasive adenocarcinoma. However, this well established genetic evolution model does not take into account other essential characteristics of human colon cancers, namely their cellular heterogeneity (different cell lineages are eten often present within the primary mass) and the putative role played by a subpopulation of tumour cells, the. In fact, although the above genetic model would predict that every tumour cell within a colon cancer allegedly initiated by an apc or β-catenin mutation should invariably be earmarked by the hallmark of constitutive wnt activation, namely nuclear β-catenin accumulation, this is only observed. This β-catenin paradox nicely illustrates how intra-tumour heterogeneity and possibly tumour stemness ensue at the very initial stages of the adenoma-carcinoma sequence and lead to different Wnt signalling levels among different tumour cells lineages sharing the same ( apc ) mutations. It also indicates that loss of apc function (or oncogenic β-catenin activation) is presumably necessary for the onset of the initial dysplastic lesion but insufficient to fully activate Wnt signal transduction and promote malignant transformation in the absence of additional environmental and (epi)genetic factors.

Previously, by employing in vivo mutagenesis 8, 9 and gene targeting in the mouse 10, 11, it was shown that loss of Apc function results in adenoma formation in the upper gi tract. However, these mouse adenomas fail to progress to malignancy and do not spontaneously accumulate additional genetic hits at the endogenous Kras and Tp53 genes. Notably, whereas oncogenic kras activation on its own is unable to initiate intestinal tumorigenesis if not with very late onset and only upon somatic hits at the Tp53 gene 13, compound Apc 1638N/ kras v12G mice are characterized by a 10-fold increase in tumour multiplicity. Further analyses revealed that Apc and kras mutations are synergistic in promoting β-catenin nuclear translocation, thus enhancing canonical Wnt signal transduction. The latter is likely to result from the ability of activated kras, through downstream and yet unknown kinases, to induce β-catenin tyrosine phosphorylation thus leading to a substantial increase of its cytoplasmatic pool and its subsequent translocation to the nucleus where it acts. Accordingly, intestinal tumours from Apc 1638N/ kras v12G mice show a significant increase in cells with nuclear accumulation of β-catenin when compared with Apc 1638N/ animals. In recent years, cscs have been successfully purified from human colon cancers by employing different cell surface markers such as CD133 15, 16, epcam, cd44 and CD166 17, and EphB2.

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(2013) Cancer Stemness. Apc kras -driven Intestinal Tumorigenesis. Plos one 8(9 e73872. Editor: Cara gottardi, northwestern University feinberg School of Medicine, united States of America. Received: March 8, 2013; Accepted: July 24, 2013; Published: September 17, 2013, copyright: 2013 Ghazvini. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. These studies were supported by grants from the dutch Cancer Society (emcr the netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO/Vici 016.036.636 the bsik (Kennisinfrastructuur) program of the dutch government grant 03038 ( ) and the netherlands Institute for Regenerative medicine (nirm; puist and the eu fp6 and. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Loading metrics, open Access, peer-reviewed, research Article x, figures. Abstract, constitutive activation of the Wnt pathway leads to adenoma formation, an obligatory step towards intestinal cancer. In view of the established role of Wnt in regulating stemness, we attempted the isolation verkoper of cancer stem cells (CSCs) from. Apc - and, apc kras -mutant intestinal tumours. Whereas cscs are present. Apc kras tumours, they appear to be very rare ( 106) in the. In contrast, the linCD24hiCD29 subpopulation of adenocarcinoma cells appear to be enriched in cscs with increased levels of active β-catenin.